| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56461 |
| QUOTATION: | We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy—for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals—than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965), U.S. Democratic politician. speech, Dec. 4, 1954, New Orleans. What I Think (1956). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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